Improvement in pie-plate holders



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JOSEPH L. DAUGHERTY, OF NEWRY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PIE-PLATE HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,296, dated September 22, 1R74 application filed June 6, 1874.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osEPn L. DAUGH- ERTY, of Newry, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Valuable Improvement in Pie-Plate Holders 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clearrand exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.v

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a plan view of my pieplate holder, and Fig. 2 is a front view. Fig. 3 is a perspective view.r

This `invention has relation to implements for removing from or to a stove or oven a pieplate, or other like utensil', in which the hand is not applied to the utensil.

The `invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of two Ushaped wires of different lengths, said wires being twisted together. to form the handle, and the four ends of the strands being disposed as follows: One terminating abruptly, and forming a shoulder; the second coiled around the four strands, forming a binder at the end of the handle; the third passed through said binder, and looped to form one hinge-eye; and the fourth, and longest, passed through said binder, bent rectangularly, to form the rigid lifting loop-arm,-and coiled around the middle portion of the handle to form the other hin ge-eye for the movable loop-arm, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the annexed drawings, A designates the handle, composed of two pieces of wire of suitable size and length, which I first bend to form U-shaped parts, which are then tightly twisted together, the free ends of the wires, one of which is much longer than the others, being all in the same end of the handle. This longer end of wire I utilize by bending it up then in a line parallel to the handle, and finally by bending it toward the handle, around which it is wound a suitable number of times, and then bent to form a loop, a. At the front end of this handle I form of a projecting end of one of the wires another loop, a', and rigidly bind and secure together the ends of the wires composing the handle A by twisting a third projecting end thereof around said ends, as

shown at c, the end of the fourth wire projecting a little to form a stop or shoulder to keep the binding end in place.

I have thus constructed of one arrangement of wires a handle, A, a grasper, B, of rectangular form, and two loops or eyes, et af. The loops ce a receive the hooked ends b b of another rectangular wire grasper, O, corresponding in shape and size with grasper B. The looping ends of these two graspers B O are then bent toward each other, so that the bent parts shall form obtuse angles with the main parts thereof. By means of these bent portions the graspers are adapted to seize upon the rim of a low plate or dish.

I use my improved pie-plate lifter as follows: The hooked end of the hinged grasper O is first passed over the flanged edge of a pie-plate, and then the hooked end of grasper B is in like manner applied to the opposite edge of said plate. The handle, being held in a horizontal position, is then raised in a vertical plane, when the weight of the plate and its contents will give the graspers a firm hold thereon, and it may be placed wherever' it is desired.

I am well aware that it is not new to attach to a handle a rigid and a hinged grasping-loop to form a plate-lifter; also, that pie-plate holders have been made of twisted wire. Hence, I do not claim such a device broadly.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the wire plate-lifter described, constructed by twisting together two U-shaped pieces of wire, of which the four ends terminateone abruptly, forming a. shoulder; the second in a binding-coil around the four strands at the end of the handle; the third in a hinge eye, and the fourth in a rectangular reverse bend, forming the rigid graspingarm, and coiled about the handle to form the other hinge-eye, and thc movable grasping-arm connected with said hinge-eyes, as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH L. DAUGHERTY.

Witnesses:

G. W. OVER., JOSEPH FICHTNER. 

